Zone1 Katar or Qatar? - K or Q?

[Zebra]

which version do you prefer?

I prefer the K

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

which version do you prefer?

I prefer the K

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I studied a little bit of Arabic and all the sources I ever read call the sound a "swallowed Q". Whatever that means. I know that I could never say it and it always just came out sounding like K.

It's a difficult language.

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[Zebra]

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I studied a little bit of Arabic and all the sources I ever read call the sound a "swallowed Q". Whatever that means. I know that I could never say it and it always just came out sounding like K.

It's a difficult language.

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i could pronounce it .... but I write Katar ....
i also studied some Arabic .... and our teacher liked to pronounce that Q

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

which version do you prefer?

I prefer the K

I've heard Arabic speaking people pronounce it so that it sounds like "Cutter" or "Cut tar"

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I've heard Arabic speaking people pronounce it so that it sounds like "Cutter" or "Cut tar"

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I worked with a woman whose husband was Qatari, and studying Arabic in college, and she pronounced it "Ka-tar".

Endless frustration for American throats that have a great difficulty wrapping their voices around a few of the sounds in the Arabic language.

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[hjmick]

دولة قطر

 

[Zebra]

دولة قطر

khlakchlakh ....

 

[Zebra]

khlakchlakh ....

so our teacher told us

 

[Zebra]

it is supposed to be the sound that a magpie makes

 

[Zebra]

or a raven .....

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

it is supposed to be the sound that a magpie makes

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After listening to several magpie calls on YouTube, I can't hear it.

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[Zebra]

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After listening to several magpie calls on YouTube, I can't hear it.

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yes, i doubted it myself .... try the raven

for me it sounds more like a stork

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

yes, i doubted it myself .... try the raven

for me it sounds more like a stork

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I might be lost. Are we talking about the Q sound?

I hear an interesting sound from this magpie -- a reedy sound that almost gets swallowed.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

yes, i doubted it myself .... try the raven

for me it sounds more like a stork

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Okay. I listened to this stork, and he almost gets there. If they'd slow down the video so I could hear the sound just once or twice.

 

[Zebra]

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I might be lost. Are we talking about the Q sound?

I hear an interesting sound from this magpie -- a reedy sound that almost gets swallowed.

i have listened to the video

the language was in German, by AI

maybe the magpies also spoke German

 

[Woodznutz]

It's pronounced "Gutter" by the Qatari's'. We fall all over ourselves not to pronounce it correctly. "Cutter" is the closest we come.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

i have listened to the video

the language was in German, by AI

maybe the magpies also spoke German

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Yes, I forgot about that. With the shoebill stork, the sound is almost like a wooden-sounding click. That's getting pretty close to the Arabic Q sound.

No matter, none of the Native Arabic speakers accepted the way I pronounces, so I just said Ka-tar -- accent on the first syllable.

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[Zebra]

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Yes, I forgot about that. With the shoebill stork, the sound is almost like a wooden-sounding click. That's getting pretty close to the Arabic Q sound.

No matter, none of the Native Arabic speakers accepted the way I pronounces, so I just said Ka-tar -- accent on the first syllable.

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yes, on the first .... with Katari on the second

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

It all goes back to Arabic's different pronunciation. Remember Gaddafi, Quaddaffi, and Khaddaffi?

All were alternate spellings of his name.

I always called him Kadaffy Duck!

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

which version do you prefer?

I prefer the K

Erok of Ages

In English phonics, before these pompous pseudo-intellectuals became our designated Language Lords, q was always followed by u.

Also, there's no need to reproduce the Arabic sound. We give it a k sound, so that's how it should be spelled. Third, we shouldn't use the Europeans' phonics, even if they use the same alphabet.